Book Description
Poetry. Native American Studies. This revised edition of INDIAN SINGING includes new poems, artwork and a new introduction by Joy Harjo. "Gail Tremblay's work sings with the bone-chilling beauty of a siren's song. Like that song, these poems pull on ancient chants as surely as the sea might pull us back to our watery beginnings" -- Colleen McElroy. "We wake; we wake the day, / the light rising in us like sun -- / our breath a prayer brushing / against the feathers in our hands. / We stumble out into streets; / patterns of wires invented by strangers / are strung between eye and sky, / and we dance in two worlds" ("Indian Singing in 20th Century America"). Gail Tremblay is of Onondaga/Micmac and French Canadian ancestry. She has two books of poetry from the University of of Nebraska Press and is widely anthologized. She is also a widely exhibited visual artist. INDIAN SINGING includes many black & white plates of her work. She currently teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This work of hope by a Native American poet and artist is a visionary quest that presents enduring lessons to accommodate change in our troubled times. '[These poems] give us something to believe in.' Small Press￯﾿ﾽThe 1998 edition of this CALYX Books classic includes new poetry and introductions by Sherman Alexie and Joy Harjo.

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Gabrielle Shaw

In this collection of poems, Gail Tremblay startles us with her accuracy. . . [She] speaks to the miraculous, the unexplainable in moments that transcend the mundane, where singing as corn is being ground is an act of reverence. -- ForeWord Magazine

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